- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (7 Feb 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 140881367X
- ISBN-13: 978-1408813676
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 14.6 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 128,732 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`True nobility in our times belongs to those men and women who know how to rise above their pain to forgive the unforgiveable. We live in a time of bewilderment, when too many people are blinded by their own suffering, by their own tragedy, and are indifferent to the suffering of others. It takes courage to refuse to hate, to refrain from advocating revenge. This book makes us meditate on the ferocity of the world, but equally it lets us glimpse what is most precious in humanity: the trembling flame of hope' --AMIN MAALOUF
`A moving and powerful book about his experiences with a central message of hope and reconciliation...I Shall Not Hate has had an extraordinary impact..."we have to offer a message of hope to those who believe in hate and revenge.' --Harriet Sherwood, Guardian
`Inspiring memoir of the struggle of a Palestinian doctor to preserve his family, humanity and hope in the face of injustice and destruction in the Gaza Strip ... Abuelaish passionately reaffirms his conviction that the resentment on both sides will never weaken until the Gaza-Israel barrier is made permeable to regular human interactions between ordinary Palestinians and Israelis. A deeply affecting narrative told in a voice of poignant simplicity, punctuated by injunctions to love that are far from corny, tried as they are by the searing experiences of a righteous man striving to act decently in a place of madness.' --Kirkus
`This story is a necessary lesson against hatred and revenge' --ELIE WIESEL, NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LAUREATE
`In this book, Doctor Abuelaish has expressed a remarkable commitment to forgiveness and reconciliation that describes the foundation for a permanent peace in the Holy Land'
--PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER
`A moving and powerful book about his experiences with a central message of hope and reconciliation...I Shall Not Hate has had an extraordinary impact..."we have to offer a message of hope to those who believe in hate and revenge.' --Harriet Sherwood, Guardian
`Inspiring memoir of the struggle of a Palestinian doctor to preserve his family, humanity and hope in the face of injustice and destruction in the Gaza Strip ... Abuelaish passionately reaffirms his conviction that the resentment on both sides will never weaken until the Gaza-Israel barrier is made permeable to regular human interactions between ordinary Palestinians and Israelis. A deeply affecting narrative told in a voice of poignant simplicity, punctuated by injunctions to love that are far from corny, tried as they are by the searing experiences of a righteous man striving to act decently in a place of madness.' --Kirkus
`This story is a necessary lesson against hatred and revenge' --ELIE WIESEL, NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LAUREATE
`In this book, Doctor Abuelaish has expressed a remarkable commitment to forgiveness and reconciliation that describes the foundation for a permanent peace in the Holy Land'
--PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER
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'This story is a necessary lesson against hatred and revenge.' Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 'In this book, Doctor Abuelaish has expressed a remarkable commitment to forgiveness and reconciliation that describes the foundation for a permanent peace in the Holy Land.' President Jimmy Carter 'A journey of exceptional humanity, written with compassion, commitment and humility, set against unimaginable odds, it consumes you at every step.' Michael Mansfield QC
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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Before reading this book i knew little of the issues for Palestinians and their Israeli neighbours. This book, written as an individuals detailed experience of growing up in the Gaza strip, from his childhood in the Jabalia Refugee Camp in the 1950's doing whatever he could to help his family put food on the table, through his adult life developing a successful career as a doctor working to help women receive fertility treatment and care on both sides of the Palestinian/Israeli borders, and up until the fateful day in 2009 when three of his beloved daughters were blown up by Israeli fire on his home, and the story that went around the world following the immediacy of that act.
The story is simply written with no rhetoric, just a straightforward telling of how it is to struggle to have a happy family life and to work in Gaza. The struggle to be able to move about freely, to retain a sense of worth, to simply maintain a home and family life in the face of adversity, and to do that without harbouring hatred for those he could easily see as the perpetrators of oppression.
The book fills in the gaps (for those who know little) in terms of explaining some of the background to why the Israeli's and Palestinians are where they are today, with the overlying message from Izzeldin that it doesn't have to be that way any more.
Its a very moving story and can bring you to tears, and if you are lucky enough, as i have been, to never to have experienced anything like Izzedin's experience, then it is truly humbling and thought evoking.
A recommended read to just put life into perspective.
The story is simply written with no rhetoric, just a straightforward telling of how it is to struggle to have a happy family life and to work in Gaza. The struggle to be able to move about freely, to retain a sense of worth, to simply maintain a home and family life in the face of adversity, and to do that without harbouring hatred for those he could easily see as the perpetrators of oppression.
The book fills in the gaps (for those who know little) in terms of explaining some of the background to why the Israeli's and Palestinians are where they are today, with the overlying message from Izzeldin that it doesn't have to be that way any more.
Its a very moving story and can bring you to tears, and if you are lucky enough, as i have been, to never to have experienced anything like Izzedin's experience, then it is truly humbling and thought evoking.
A recommended read to just put life into perspective.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Gritty human experience can be recorded in forms that may be captivating, shocking or moving. The author manages all three so the read is compelling. The matter-of-fact revelations of the author ambush you - every now and then I found myself summing up and experiencing the aweful reality of understanding that the lives of countless Palestinians have been blighted unnecessarily for generations, since they were forced into two small patches of their former lands in 1948.
It is only by chance that the author's family decided to go to the Gaza Strip rather than the West Bank on the basis that they knew people on the Strip. The outcome for the family was almost certainly worse for that decision.
In spite of the enormous deprivations, abject poverty, horrendous mal-treatments and the most dreadful and violent losses of his closest family, Dr Abuelaish continues to reframe his experiences to maintain his sanity, to be free from anger and to seek a way to peace through medicine. He is an example of human greatness at its purest best.
This book is a gift of humanity in a world of ignorant, angry and selfish people who traumatize us and destroy our planet because of their own lack of humanity - the simple ability to see other people, including our enemies as redeemable and deserving a safe envrionment in which to flourish.
It is only by chance that the author's family decided to go to the Gaza Strip rather than the West Bank on the basis that they knew people on the Strip. The outcome for the family was almost certainly worse for that decision.
In spite of the enormous deprivations, abject poverty, horrendous mal-treatments and the most dreadful and violent losses of his closest family, Dr Abuelaish continues to reframe his experiences to maintain his sanity, to be free from anger and to seek a way to peace through medicine. He is an example of human greatness at its purest best.
This book is a gift of humanity in a world of ignorant, angry and selfish people who traumatize us and destroy our planet because of their own lack of humanity - the simple ability to see other people, including our enemies as redeemable and deserving a safe envrionment in which to flourish.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a lovely book, very easy to read. It was also very informative. I now appreciate the terrible difficulties that the Palestinians have to put up with. All told without an ounce of hatred. Everyone should read this book.
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